Biotechnology & medicine
Frank Lyko
Aims to reprogram cancer cells to be more like normal cells by developing compounds that block the aberrant modification of DNA in cancer cells.
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Xiaowei Zhuang
She has filmed a single influenza virus infecting a cell.
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Jörg Lahann
Designed an electrically switchable surface coating that can alternate between attracting and repelling water.
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Lauren Meyers
Helped public-health officials control epidemics of walking pneumonia and SARS with sophisticated mathematical models that predict how a disease will spread through networks of human interactions.
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Lei Wang
Expanded the genetic code in order to allow living cells to incorporate new, unnatural building blocks into the proteins that they make.